exhibitions - 2010
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Stitching Community As part of Black History month, ARTspace has partnered with the Buxton National Historic Site and Museum to showcase Stitching Community: African Canadian Quilts from Southern Ontario. This exhibition was previously featured at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and will showcase both quilts and dolls made by Black women from 1848 to 1976. African Canadian quilting emerged in the decades preceding Confederation. Enslaved Black women were used for spinning, weaving, sewing, and quilting on American plantations. When the first generation of fugitive slave women arrived in Canada -- the “land of freedom” -- in the 1840s, they brought with them the skills and talents they too would pass down to their children. This exhibition will be on display from January 25 – March 3, 2012 with an opening reception on Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 7pm with opening remarks by Shannon Prince.
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